A Truce That Is Not Peace

‘This is memoir perfection. Toews manages to be funny about life’s hardest moments, whilst remaining as honest and vulnerable as only a truly great writer can be. I adored it’ Cariad Lloyd, author of You Are Not Alone ‘Why does Miriam Toews write? A Truce That Is Not Peace answers the question in a hundred ways, all of them original, autobiographical, deeply painful, funny, oblique, confounding – just as those of us who believe her to be one of the greatest living North American writers have come to expect. A Truce That Is Not Peace is the best memoir you will read all year’ Nick Hornby, author of Just Like You ‘I loved A Truce that is not Peace. It is written with such fiery brilliance that the sadness it contains is transformed into an affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety. This remarkable book will live forever’ Celia Paul ‘This small book is bursting with hilariousness and suffering and rage and also so much tenderness that the pages are practically flying off like paper-airplane love letters. I would have read another thousand chapters’ Catherine Newman, author of Sandwich ‘A haunting, tragi-comic, and incredibly moving inquiry into the landscapes and the people that define us; the parts of life that make no sense; and the things that, against all odds, keep us alive … essential reading, a smart and wise companion for turbulent times’ Laura van den Berg, author of The Third Hotel ‘Piercing and distilled, a masterpiece in vulnerability and performance. A Truce That Is Not Peace is a stunner’ Hannah Pittard, author of We Are Too Many